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Re: One more quick plug for reducing "Clarify Selection" dialogs

 

Hi Kristoffer,

That’s odd.  Did you try it with your mouse pointer directly over the corner?  (You may need a reasonably thick track for this to happen.  Try something on the order of 2mm.)

Without my change the selection disambiguation is run *before* we know it’s a drag action on a simple corner, so the selection_tool thinks it needs to know which of the two segments is to be selected.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 9 Jan 2018, at 15:37, Kristoffer Ödmark <kristofferodmark90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> If i understand him correctly that would only be when on a corner, I think it would be the desired behaviour.
> 
> Although, when I try it on my build on my laptop, there is no clarify selection menu popping up when trying do drag ( 'd' ) or such on corners. Not in opengl anywas. So I dont know.
> 
> Application: kicad
> Version: (2017-12-30 revision b55eb0b5f)-master, release build
> Libraries:
>    wxWidgets 3.0.3
>    libcurl/7.57.0 OpenSSL/1.1.0g zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.29.0
> Platform: Linux 4.14.12-1-MANJARO x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
> Build Info:
>    wxWidgets: 3.0.3 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
>    Boost: 1.65.1
>    Curl: 7.57.0
>    Compiler: GCC 7.2.1 with C++ ABI 1011
> 
> Build settings:
>    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
>    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
>    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
>    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
>    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
>    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
>    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
>    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
>    KICAD_SPICE=ON
> 
> 
> -Kristoffer
> 
> On 01/09/2018 04:27 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> Jeff,
>> Have actually confirmed that this is the desired behavior for this
>> outside of you own objectives?  I'm not saying that this is or isn't a
>> good idea but I personally don't drag trace corners around so I'm not
>> sure what the appropriate behavior should be.  You should get comments
>> from the dev list and users before you make a change like this.  As far
>> as pushing this to the dev repo, if it's not too invasive I will
>> consider it.  If it is a large change set, I would prefer that we hold
>> off until after the stable release.
>> Thanks,
>> Wayne
>> On 1/8/2018 5:49 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> Wayne, if I could get you to don that old project manager’s hat one more time:
>>> 
>>> If we’re still weeks out from declaring an RC, I wanted to make one more plug for getting rid of the Clarify Selection dialog when dragging corners or using ‘U’ or ‘I’ over a corner[1].
>>> 
>>> While it’s marked Wishlist, it seriously impacts productivity when editing tracks, and I think most users would consider it a bug (particularly in the corner case when dragging the corner is clearly moving both the tracks listed in the Clarify Selection menu).
>>> 
>>> I’ve been running the patch for about a week now with no issues.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jeff.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1708869
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